Naturally, reading subtitles slowed down my project, but I don't regret watching and am glad I saw the two seasons worth of episodes. There are more, but can't find them in USA sources.
Got started on this on local PBS station, an 11 pm offering. Saw more on PBS Passport via Walter Presents subsection.
Agree with other reviewer that the "rookie" nurse is given too wide latitude and authority in this hospital (apparently because her father and former hubby are powerful here), that she had sufficient training as a student physician in a former life to be a heck of a nurse now and can brainstorm in a diagnosis session, that hospital financial issues are contrived and the top administrator reports to mysterious irrational decision-makers, that the ward is considered a top medical facility yet is perpetually endangered by staffing shortages and money issues, and that the chain of authority shifts so oddly.
Nevertheless, I got involved in each medical case, each interpersonal swing of fate, each emergency. Nina's house is often filled up with other persons and though the home interactions are of course very forced; there were at least 2 medical on-the-spot emergencies in these two seasons that occurred for Nina on the street enroute to the hospital, I accepted all this. What the heck, who cares?
The two teenagers episode is still on my mind. Although their mischief-making seems preposterous, nevertheless the boys were riveting enough to affect me. Other topics include forgiveness, friendship, parenthood, aspirations and reality, secret alcoholism, and a lot of oddball diseases. Dr. Proust apparently has carte blanche to test theoretical diagnoses over and over again, but the actor's crazy bipolar-ness of being diabolical yet being kind kept me going.
The overtired staff, the sexual activity on the sly, the de-compressing after work, well, I accepted all of this. Dorothee is a wonderfully wacky character, another unbelievable nurse but in a much different context than saintly Nina, and played by a woman with a remarkable silly smile.
I hope to find more episodes and find out what happens to the head nurse.
Got started on this on local PBS station, an 11 pm offering. Saw more on PBS Passport via Walter Presents subsection.
Agree with other reviewer that the "rookie" nurse is given too wide latitude and authority in this hospital (apparently because her father and former hubby are powerful here), that she had sufficient training as a student physician in a former life to be a heck of a nurse now and can brainstorm in a diagnosis session, that hospital financial issues are contrived and the top administrator reports to mysterious irrational decision-makers, that the ward is considered a top medical facility yet is perpetually endangered by staffing shortages and money issues, and that the chain of authority shifts so oddly.
Nevertheless, I got involved in each medical case, each interpersonal swing of fate, each emergency. Nina's house is often filled up with other persons and though the home interactions are of course very forced; there were at least 2 medical on-the-spot emergencies in these two seasons that occurred for Nina on the street enroute to the hospital, I accepted all this. What the heck, who cares?
The two teenagers episode is still on my mind. Although their mischief-making seems preposterous, nevertheless the boys were riveting enough to affect me. Other topics include forgiveness, friendship, parenthood, aspirations and reality, secret alcoholism, and a lot of oddball diseases. Dr. Proust apparently has carte blanche to test theoretical diagnoses over and over again, but the actor's crazy bipolar-ness of being diabolical yet being kind kept me going.
The overtired staff, the sexual activity on the sly, the de-compressing after work, well, I accepted all of this. Dorothee is a wonderfully wacky character, another unbelievable nurse but in a much different context than saintly Nina, and played by a woman with a remarkable silly smile.
I hope to find more episodes and find out what happens to the head nurse.